An Indiana appeals court will decide whether a hospital in the state violated a patient's privacy rights when it left her data open to electronic interception, The Herald Bulletin reported Jan. 22.

Memphis, Tenn.-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is moving to an Epic EHR system. 

The Bear Institute, a pediatric health IT collaboration between Washington, D.C.-based Children's National Hospital and Oracle Health, has named four startup companies as the winners of its second annual pediatric digital health innovation competition. 

Huron (S.D.) Regional Medical Center will launch a 12-week information technology apprenticeship program aimed at teaching the ins and outs of healthcare IT. 

Orlando (Fla.) Health has entered into an agreement with global technology-enabled care delivery provider Biofourmis to use its tools to power its hospital-at-home program.  

Leaders of Spring Valley, Ill.-based St. Margaret's Health say a cyberattack is partly to blame for their decision to close its Peru, Ill., hospital, 25 News Now in Peoria reported Jan. 20.

BlackCat, a "triple-extortion" ransomware group that combines ransomware attacks with threats to leak data and disable websites, attacked EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare, The Washington Post reported Jan. 23.

Here are 5 health systems that have implemented new EHR systems or announced plans to do so since Dec. 30:

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